LETTER: Soccer trophy slights U.S. female star

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LETTER: Soccer trophy slights U.S. female star

Argentina`s Lionel Messi, left, and American Abby Wambach pose with their trophies after receiving the World Player of the Year Awards in Zuriich, Switzerland, on Jan. 7. A reader writes that Messi's trophy is much more impressive than the one given to Wambach.

The photo that accompanies the soccer awards story (âMessi, Wambach voted top players,â Jan. 8) shows Argentine player Lionel Messi with an impressively large soccer-ball trophy for his being named the worldâs Soccer Player of the Year.

American star Abby Wambach is pictured alongside Messi, also as world Soccer Player of the Year. While Wambach is shown towering over the diminutive Messi, she is also shown holding a droopy trophy that looks like a bag of pretzels.

If their accomplishments are the same, why is there a disparity in their trophies?

Is there no Title lX at the Federation Internationale de Football Association, known as FIFA?

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